Mobile industry will face several disruptive changes in coming years. Emerging digital convergence will bring new exiting multifunctional products for consumers but it also put new requirements for the product development. Shift from vertical to horizontal mode will bring deep impact to the R&D of the whole mobile industry. Emerging dominant platforms and architectures will challenge the whole community to maintain the spirit of open innovation instead of ending up to dominance of one or two key players. In this presentation we are considering the challenges and requirements for the future architectures, and open up our thinking what are the right architectural directions to go.